Swagerty-Aldrich Family Web Site
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Brian relaxing at home in 1990 I spent a full career in Education with wide and varied experiences. However, I only spent one year serving as a classroom teacher. I started my teaching career as an “Instructor/Counselor” at Whiskeytown Environmental…
Read More My First and Only Year of Classroom Teaching, 1,956 words
I've been told that I wasn't as easy a baby as my older sister. All my parents had to do to get my sister to stop doing something was to tell her not to do it once. Telling me no…
I feel I have lived in the best of times to see live music. I have seen many of the classic rock and roll groups and artists, live. I’ve seen Jimi Hendrix; Neil Young; Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young; John…
What are my favorite songs? Out of the trillions of songs out there, there are too many for me to choose. I like lots of songs, I don't really have a favorite one. I have favorite musicians/singers. Neil Young is…
Read More What are your favorite songs?, Storyworth question, 817 words
The person I was at 13 was a much different person at 19. I probably grew more as a person during those seven years than I did during any other seven-year period in my life. At 13, I was extremely…
Read More What were you like as a teenager?, Storyworth question, 2,035 words
When I think of my father and the advice he gave me, I think of the phrase, “If you are going to do something, do it right.” I thank him to this day for this advice. If something is worth…
Read More What is some of the best advice your father ever gave you?, Storyworth question, 499 words
by Brian & Mary Lou Swagerty on March 10, 2021. I was much closer to my father’s parents than I was to my mother’s. My mom’s mother died before I was born, and my mother had a strained relationship with her father.…
Read More What were your grandparents like?, Storyworth question, 1,362 words
I had a lot of toys, growing up, although I’m not sure I would have told you that at the time. I had a nice collection of marbles that I have to this day. I would play marbles with my…
Read More What were your favorite toys as a child?, Storyworth question, 393 words
My Dad owned a grocery store when I was growing up. The store kept him very busy, he worked there almost every day of the week from 8:00 in the morning until 11:00 at night. He developed diabetes as a…
Read More “What was your Dad like when you were a child?”, Storyworth question, 1,210 words
I always felt I was very lucky to have my Mom be my Mom. I always knew she loved me and wanted the best for me. She didn't work outside the house when I was growing up and it was…
Read More What was your Mom like when you were a child?, Storyworth question, 967 words
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